n.
In linguistics circles, a person who blindly welcomes all new coinages, grammatical shifts, and usage changes.
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"By now you must be thinking that I am a flaming permissivist who adopts as a household pet any new use that crawls out of the language woodwork."
—Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore
—Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore
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